Alibaba’s Chairman Joe Tsai Speaking at CNBC’s Converge Live Event in Singapore on Wedns.
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The future of artificial intelligence is a Major Topic of Conversation Among Global Tech and Business Leaders at CNBC’s Converge Live In Singapore.
Numerous executives talked up the potential of ai and discuced how it’s expected to impact the future of work and productivity.
Here’s a compilation of quotes from some of the top corporate leaders Attending converge live this week:
Joe Tsai, Chairman of Alibaba Group
Joe Tsai, Chairman of e-Commerce Giant Alibabaspoke about how ai can enhance production and boost global gdp, with a total addressable market of “at least $ 10 trillion, if not bigger.”
“If you look at ai, what does it do? It actually improves human production,” He said, noting that alibaba itself can benefit a lot from the deployment of ai with Ai with Ai with Ai
TSAI also discusing how the release of chinese ai start-up Deepsek’s open-second R1 model in January has impacted the global ai space and has led to a “Process of applications.”
“I think the so-called deepsek moment is really not about whats beetter ai than the us, or vice versa. It’s really about about the power of open source,” He Said.
“Once you open-source the model, people can take the model and deploy it on their own infrastructure, beether it’s in the data center or in your laptop computer, all of a a Suden you have the power of ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai aa Fingertips. “
“Now you have small companies and big companies and corporations and individuals and entrepreneurs development on top of these open source (models), so the ai game is not just left to the five to the five to the five World that can afford to invest $ 50 billion a year, “He added.
Dean Carignan, Ai Innovations Lead at Microsoft
Dean Carignan, Ai Innovations Lead at MicrosoftDiscussed the concept of “human-kept ai” and how it can help improve the future of the workplace.
“Human-kept ai means starting with the user and asking first: what should be ai do? As opposed to: What can it do? … So much of the (AI) Discussion is Around Models and Technology and Capability. Starting with the user and the needs. “
Carignan also noted that ai can help improvctivity rather than replicating it.
“We like to talk about Human-II Complement and FORKFLWS where an ai can take away the drudgery of the work and allow the human to provide to provide the thing that will lead a person, innovation, innovation, innovation, innovation, innovation, innovation, innovation, Building, inspiration, motivating others. “
Guy Diedrich, Global Innovation Officer at Cisco
Guy Diedrich, SVP and Global Innovation Officer at CiscoDiscussed the importance of ai companies providing Trust in the space.
“Trust is foundational for us moving forward … You do get access to data (for ai) unless you’re trusted, and the way that you have trusted in our industry is to provide
Diedrich also discussed how a company’s up-skilling must be agile to keep up with the rapid innovation of ai.
“Right now, we are in the ai micro age, or the ai moment. In the next couple of years, ai is going to be embedded in everything that we do do. “Be prepared to skill at the speed of innovation.
Ganesha Rasiah, Chief Strategy Officer at HP
Ganesha Rasiah, Chief Strategy Officer at HP.
Ganesha Rasiah, Chief Strategy Officer at HP, Told Converge Live About The Impact That AI Could have on the job market.
“Certain jobs are going to be eliminated. I think that’s to be expected, but we don’t foresee a world in which there’s a significly elevated level of UNEPLOYMENT,” He said.
INTEAD, as AI Capability decided more accessible, there will be an explosion in demand and shifts in the nature of work, “he added. I do see it as being able to the tide that rayses all boats. “
Kamal Bhatia, President and CEO, Principal Asset Management
Kamal Bhatia, President and CEO of Principal Asset Management, Described the Rise of Deepsek as “Quite amazing.”
“I would describe it as innovation under Adversity,” He said.
Investors can miss out they think innovation only Occurs If Capital Exists, He Added. “What the China Experiment Proves … is you can actually extend innovation without capital,” He said. With “Adversity, you can actually leapfrog.”
Marc Benioff, CEO of Senseforce
Marc Benioff, CEO of Enterprise software giant salesforce, noted the number of “Mulati 100 billion dollar” investments in data centers in recent months as the hype arpe ai have been ai has given ai
“I think that what you just when with deepsek, and also with alibaba, with their Qwen model, is that that you don’t need this kind of technology. So i think it has to bes to ben You doing this? “He said of the huge data center investments.
“You can get into a group-think in technology also, and this idea-do they need it? Well, maybe they do, but also maybe they do not.”